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Columbia Shorts 1942

60. LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD

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Rl. Jan. 8 / Prod. No. 510 / 17 m / p d Jules White / st scr Felix Adler and Clyde Bruckman / ph John Stumar / e Jerome Thoms / C: Dorothy Appleby (Miss Stompandale), Bud Jamison (Man), Vernon Dent (Baldo the Magician), Robert Williams (Bit Man), Eddie Laughton (Drunk) and John Tyrell (Waldo Twitchell)

SYN: The Stooges, out on the streets and down on their luck, read about a man who gets a huge settlement for slipping on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby. Immediately, the gears start turning and the hunt for a bar of soap and a hotel is on. Once inside, Curly fails to slip properly, and the scheme is interrupted by an angry tax collector. He's there to collect a large amount of back taxes from Miss Stompandale, or collect the hotel. It doesn't take long before the Stooges soft side kicks in and they see that their help is desperately needed. They decide to help the widow owner of the Happy Haven Hotel to raise money to pay off her note by remodeling the Hotel and adding The Kokonutz Grove, a ritzy nightclub. On opening night, the boys provide the entertainment as "Nill, Null, and Void, Three Hams Who Lay Their Own Eggs," singing "She Was Bread in Old Kentucky but She's Just a Crumb Up Here." In attendance is Waldo Twitchell, a well-known columnist, whose rave review of the Stooges saves the hotel from it's debt and utter disaster.

Quick Hits:

- Did you know the character "Waldo Twitchell" was based on the influential Walter Winchell, a real life columnist.

- On March 7, 1946, comedian Harold Lloyd sued writers Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler, director Jules White and Columbia Pictures for Bruckman's use of Lloyd's magician's coat sequence from Movie Crazy (1932) in Loco Boy Makes Good. Lloyd sought $500,000 in damages.

WT: Poor But Dishonest / FN: The segment of Curly unrolling linoleum (instead of carpeting or wallpaper) is an old standard. The "Driving Nails" routine was later redone in The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962). The song, "She Was Bread in Old Kentucky", does not appear in the final draft script. Instead, Curly was supposed to mime Yankee Doodle like a seal playing several harmonicas.